Discovery BoxJohn 9:8 
Context9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously 1 as a beggar began saying, 2 “Is this not the man 3 who used to sit and beg?”
John 19:39
Context19:39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus 4 at night, 5 accompanied Joseph, 6 carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes 7 weighing about seventy-five pounds. 8
1 tn Or “formerly.”
2 tn An ingressive force (“began saying”) is present here because the change in status of the blind person provokes this new response from those who knew him.
3 tn Grk “the one.”
4 tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
5 sn See John 3:1-21.
6 tn Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.
7 sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.
8 sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.
